On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 7:10 PM, Micheal Butz <[email protected]>wrote:

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> I do a MODEST MODE=SUP,KEY=NZERO
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> Later when I want to ACESS Key zero storage I do a SPKA 0
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> Later to put things back to where they were
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> I do L    R9,PSATOLD
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>         SPKA TCBPKF
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>  This however causes all sorts of problems
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Look again at the POPs for SPKA.  The operand is not used as the address
from where the new storage protection key is fetched.  Instead, bits 56-59
of the second operand form the new storage protection key.


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> I am just wondering since the storage key access is determined from bits
> 8-11 of the PSW
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> What is the purpose of having it in the TCB is it the PSW KEY that the TASK
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